Windows used to be more reliable, but anything in the "Modern" system is extremely unreliable. Including and especially the Settings app. It's such a steaming pile of garbage I have to watch my temper any time I'm setting up a new computer.
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Video: Testing Stage Manager on iPadOS 16 With an External Display
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Windows used to be more reliable, but anything in the "Modern" system is extremely unreliable. Including and especially the Settings app. It's such a steaming pile of garbage I have to watch my temper any time I'm setting up a new computer.
eh? What are you taking about? Windows is absolute garbage. The only reason people say its good is beacuse they've learned how to use such crap over so many year.
I suspect its mainly aimed at use with an external monitor. I agree that Ipad use without an external monitor is very good as it is now.
It’s garbage in every way except window management, which is what macOS is garbage at, but there are third party apps, such as Rectangle, which make this a non-issue. It’s just a bit of a joke when Apple finally decides to release something for window management, and it’s Stage Manager, which features the ability to compartmentalize messy windows that are still messy even after “organizing them” with still no snap functionality … which Windows has had for like 15 years. You don’t have to like Windows to see that problem with the state of the Mac’s window management.
I wonder how many “window” functions and features are trademark/copyright protected by Microsoft? That would be one of the few legitimate excuses for the cludgy workarounds.
It "snaps" the window to different parts of the screen. For instance, you can snap windows to exact equal portions of the screen. So if you had two windows you can have two window take up the exact left and right halves of the screen without needing to manually resize anything. Windows also allows you to create exact positioning for workflows. Stage Manager allows position memorization, but the windows are all over the place. Sure, you could combine Stage Manager with a third-arty window management app, but then you run into the issue with the entire left part of the grouped windows disappearing entirely if you move the window too far left. It's seems like a really half-baked implementation.
I don't think there is. And if there is, it must be very minuscule, because there are quite a few apps on macOS that mimic Microsoft's window management functionality.
That's cute, do you know Windows also has to support literally trillions of combinations of hardware & software/applications some dating back to the last century? Try doing that with Mac & see where it leads Apple!
I consider this a very expensive upgrade, because apple demoing this with a larger Studio display connected to a M1 IPad with 128/256 for storage to act as a substitute for a Mac Laptop is a hard sell for most Apple consumers. I also have yet to see how this works without virtual swap on the M1 Air 64 GB model?
Okay look. macOS is my favorite OS. But if you think window management on Mac is better than Windows & Linux you're sorely mistaken. Windows has easy window snapping. macOS doesn't, it's window snapping makes half fullscreen instances. Windows also has a taskbar for every individual window, macOS doesn't.
I’ve never seen a more false statement about macOS in probably ever.
I move between Windows at work and macOS at home, for certain tasks my productivity suffers in macOS with the windows mess. Like you said you need third party apps to do what Windows has built-in and don't even get me started with the close/minimise/maximise mess or dragging an item into another window - stuff that Windows does perfectly.
This is a pretty good breakdown of the window management mess in macOS:
I use magnet which I reckon is very similar (I would have thrown the macbook out the window without it) but I still find window management to be inferior, for example cascade windows is missing, shake window to reveal the desktop is missing and snap to the top will often reveal mission control instead of maximising the window.... plus the close, minimise and maximise behaviour drives me crazy, is super complicated and adds to the windows mess... plus I really don't like the fact that I should be using 2 different paid apps (magnet and Yoink) to do what Windows has built-in. Other than window management I borderline prefer macOS but damn this **** is frustrating.
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Reading all of this, I wonder if people even know how to use and switch windows in macOS? 😆
You can't even alt-tab between different Safari windows on MacOS. You have to use a different keyboard combination when switching between two windows of the same application versus windows from different applications.
When I first saw stage manager on the Mac running Ventura I thought of someone that would like to use this to produce and manage presentations with several applications. Thats al fine they offer this and the pretty much the same for M1 iPads that meet the requirements for stage manager and virtual cache to run. But all of this is taken for granted in MacOS. Everything has access to cache swap all the time to much larger storage and RAM. So perhaps your joke should have been directed to say "I wonder if people even know how too use and switch windows in iPadOS?" because that is what new and still needs to be perfected.
After all this talk about how Windows is so much better than macOS for window managing, I completely forgot that this thread is about iPadOS.When I first saw stage manager on the Mac running Ventura I thought of someone that would like to use this to produce and manage presentations with several applications. Thats al fine they offer this and the pretty much the same for M1 iPads that meet the requirements for stage manager and virtual cache to run. But all of this is taken for granted in MacOS. Everything has access to cache swap all the time to much larger storage and RAM. So perhaps your joke should have been directed to say "I wonder if people even know how too use and switch windows in iPadOS?" because that is what new and still needs to be perfected.
A listen between the iPad Pro and M2 MBA laptop comparing display & speaker quality starts at 2:58 time point.
Discussing stage manager at 8:00 time point. Various issues are documented during the length of this video.
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i have to agree with this. Windows multi tasking is far better and I actually enjoy windows 11 for this (but not much else)